Bernard Labadie’s Chamber Orchestra, Les Violons Du Roy, Selects His Successor

Jonathan Cohen, a British cellist and harpsichordist who serves as one of William Christie’s associate conductors at Les Arts Florissants and runs the period-instrument collective Arcangelo, will become music director as of 2019. Labadie founded the Quebec City ensemble in 1984 and announced in 2013 that he would step down from its helm.